Professor Brian Cox has a Darth Vader Christmas tree. Just because.

​Like many people, Professor Brian Cox has a Christmas tree up, but unlike many people, his is in the shape of Darth Vader.

Casually revealing his Star Wars-themed decorations on ITV’s This Morning, Cox swiftly went to Twitter afterwards to post a picture of how he’s celebrating Sithmas.

The trick is to not buy a specific Darth Vader tree off the shelf – though there’s no doubt that’ll be a thing soon enough – but to buy another tree and Darth it up.

“We bought a black Christmas tree and decorated it as Darth Vader,”​ Cox explained, in the process revealing there are such things as black Christmas trees. Wooooow! It’s almost as interesting as one of his programmes!

Matt Gault is a sports writer and film fanatic. He is a fully-qualified journalist and has worked for BBCNI, Sunday Life and has been published on The Guardian's website. He interns at REDNI, sub-editing for the Belfast Telegraph. He studied at Queen's University pretending to like history and literature and then University of Ulster Coleraine, where he slacked off enormously for a year and somehow got away with it. He also enjoys Captain Morgans, The Sopranos, Led Zeppelin and Hunter S. Thompson which makes him a remarkably uninteresting person.

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